Next time your cell’s battery runs out of charge and you don’t know how to get it working again as you didn’t carry the charger or you can’t find any electric socket or both, you need not panic, just drink a glass of juice and head for the urinal.
Why?
Physicists in Singapore have developed a mobile battery that can be powered by human urine. A team at Singapore’s Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology led by Dr Ki Bang Lee, developed a paper battery which is designed to be cheap to produce, and use urine as its power charge source.
According to the results of an experiment carried out by them, the team were able to generate a voltage of around 1.5 Volts with a corresponding maximum power of 1.5 mW using just 0.2 ml of urine. Not only this, the battery’s performance can also be adjusted by using different construction materials.
On this Lee says;
Our urine-activated battery would be integrated into biochip systems for healthcare diagnostic applications. These fully-integrated biochip systems have a huge market potential.The battery is made from a layer of paper that is soaked in copper chloride (CuCl) and then sandwiched between strips of magnesium and copper.
The final product’s dimensions are:
Length - 6cm
Breadth - 3cm
Height (thickness) - Only 1 mm.
The research was published in the Institute of Physics’ Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering.
So next time your conventional battery dies, you know what to do, right?
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